>No; it’s a signal of lobotomy. Models get dumber near where you sensor [sic] them.

Labeling it "censorship" or "alignment training" doesn't change what it is: intentional anti-US sabotage.

"Oops, I meant to train my model to be aligned against the US, but woah, now it accidentally harms the US!! My bad!!"

Not convincing, sorry.

  >I mean, it’s insecure bad code, not a backdoor, right?

Six of one and half-dozen of the other.

Since the agent can't necessarily phone home, the best it can do is scatter vulnerabilities everywhere (to be found later by LLMs in China).

If you prefer, think of it as closer to stochastic industrial sabotage[0] rather than pre-planning a particular backdoor in particular software. Different tools, different tactics!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448090